On 3 March 2016 at 18:49, rgm <r...@rgm.nu> wrote:
> No, because ToStringStyle affects the rendering of only one of the object's
> toString methods and cannot change the "left differs from right" output,
> although it could change the rendering of either "left" or "right." The
> inclusion of two objects and the hard-coded string "differs from" are not
> affected by ToStringStyle.
I think your current approach sounds just fine. `toString()` isn't
really intended for complex formatting tasks - the only reason I added
a `ToStringStyle` override was to match the style of other classes in
the builder package.
Composition is also generally preferred to inheritance, so I would
prefer not to make `DiffResult` extendable, but rather encourage you
to make methods in your own classes that know how to format a
`DiffResult` in the way you prefer.
Duncan
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Bhowmik, Bindul <bindulbhow...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:31 AM, rgm <r...@rgm.nu> wrote:
>> > Ironically, it seems impossible to override DiffResult.toString(), which
>> > one may wish to do in order to provide alternate formats for the
>> > differences that are more compact than "lhs differs from rhs."
>> >
>> > In my case, I wanted to support differences between Set<Integer> so that
>> > one could get output like:
>> > Object[groups: added: {1, 2}, removed: {7},name:cat->dog]
>> >
>> > Rather than:
>> > Object[groups:[3,4,7],name=cat] differs from Object[groups:
>> > [1,2,3,4],name=dog]
>>
>> Isn't this a use case for building your own ToStringStyle [1] and
>> using the DiffResult#toString(ToStringStyle) method?
>>
>> >
>> > To support this I ended up wrapping the DiffResult class because I could
>> > not extend it due to its private constructor.
>> >
>> > re:
>> >
>> https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/DiffResult.html
>>
>> - Bindul
>>
>> [1]
>> https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/ToStringStyle.html
>>
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